2019


Peer-to-peer digital electronic cash

Bitcoin is not a cryptocurrency. Too many people get it wrong. As the white paper explains, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer

Privacy versus hypocrisy
By Craig Wright | 21 Mar 2019 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Law & Regulation

Many of those arguing for anonymity are truly arguing for power and the control of others. If we take into

Forks as a demerger, or a split as a copy?
By Craig Wright | 20 Mar 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

There is a lie and myth of decentralised consensus where a small group of developers alters a protocol and says

Learning Script

The foundation of recursion comes in 6 functions. OP_ADD and OP_1ADD encapsulate point 4 and point 2 (below) respectively. Point

Free Speech
By Craig Wright | 18 Mar 2019 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Philosophy

Free speech is not the right to be heard on any platform but rather limitations set by governments and authorities

Finite State Machines in Script
By Craig Wright | 18 Mar 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

This note provides methods for constructing deterministic and non-deterministic finite state automata in Bitcoin Script. The “best” method produces a

Why Lightning will never be currency, and why BSV matters

Under the provisions of FinCEN, any exchange accepting and transmitting virtual currency is a money transmitter [1]. The law is

Proof
By Craig Wright | 13 Mar 2019 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Law & Regulation

The code-is-law movement is a pernicious attack on freedom. There is no definitive means to assess truth through a computer

Profiting from privacy
By Craig Wright | 10 Mar 2019 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

It is interesting how we are slowly moving away from the paradigm of selling user data for money. We can

The labour fallacy of mining

I have noted a good number of people hold on to the same common fallacy as was promoted by Marx.

The myth of forks
By Craig Wright | 06 Mar 2019 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Philosophy

When I removed myself from public view towards the end of 2010 and 2011, it was as I was rather

Proof of (unregistered) security
By Craig Wright | 04 Mar 2019 | Alternative Coins & Systems, Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

There have been many people pushing proof of stake as an alternative to proof of work. They claim that proof

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